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Old 05-22-2015, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Winky Dink View Post
Thanks. That's a really good thing to know. When I started working with this set five years ago I didn't have this problem--it just read 460 VDC.
That would be the averaged-out (or RMS) value of the main B+ and the high-level spikes.
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I would have thought that Sams would have noted this on the voltage data chart, but perhaps this wasn’t an issue with VTVMs of that era?
The editors mighta figgered a techie already knows not to put a meter there. Certainly it would risk arcing in the meter probe or selector switch.
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